Anyone running into this problem?
I am doing a simple negative mesh insert of a cylinder into a DynaMesh64 Sphere. I move and adjust the cylinder to penetrate through the sphere then Ctrl Click Drag to clear the mask and Ctrl Click Drag to remesh and Zbrush crashes. The message reads not enough RAM; I have 4 GB of ram installed and I’m running Windows XP SP3 on a system with 2 dual core AMD Opteron processors. In preferences I have my Compact Mem set to 1000 everything else is at default.
Here is what the dialog box is telling me:
INTERNAL ERROR.\List.cpp Line:517
Locked main mem in List-out
Object:
this same dialog comes up with reference to Lines: 734, 155 and 165
Anyone have any idea what’s happening. I suspect I may be doing something wrong but the additive process works correctly.
Hello DLangley
Try putting your Compact Mem back to the default 256 then see if you get the crashes. There is a misconception of what Compact Mem actually does. All this does is set how much memory do you want ZBrush to have when your not using the application. There is no need to adjust this unless you want ZBrush to receive more memory when it’s not in use.
Let me know if you still receive the crash after that adjustment.
Paul
Thanks for the reply gabo, I set the compact mem back to default and the same crash occurs. It is only when subtracting an inserted mesh and it doesn’t crash when I use any other feature with Dynamesh on.
Did you send in a support ticket to support.pixologic.com and give all of your computer specs? If not I would do so.
Yes I did, I haven’t heard anything back yet, but they are all probably pretty busy so I’ll just have to press on and hopefully they can find a solution.
Thanks for your help.
Dave
I’m actually having the same issue on this machine. It has 4 gigs of ram, windows xp 32. I’ll have to see what happens when I get home and try it on my 8 gig machine. Basically ANY negative insert will cause this crash.
Yes that’s exactly the problem; glad to see I’m not alone on this it might make it a little easier to track down the cause, but sorry it’s happening. Please post when you test your other machine I’m curious to see if it is limited to XP 32 and 4GB RAM.
I have to bump this because it’s bugging me a bit; Is nearly everyone else working with XP (32 bit system) and not having this problem?
If so I am wondering what system specs and/or settings in Z4R2 you have.
Thanks
Dave
under xp32 enable the 3GB swich (you’ll need to have 3B+ of physical ram) and you’ll be fine.
having same exact problem… unable to negative space any insert and the mesh is never more then 50k polys when i try… 4gb ram… daily updated xp sp3 install.
what 3gb+ switch are you refferring to elvis? something in windows or a setting in zbrush?
elvis75K; thanks for the recommendation, unfortunately my system resources won’t allow me to make use of the 3GB Switch. I am running 2 graphics cards one for a dual monitor set up and one for my cintiq. When attempting the 3GB Switch Windows disables one of my graphics cards to run the operating system.
dapharmer: the 3 GB switch can be added to your boot.ini file to allocate 3GB of RAM to user programs and 1GB to the operating system. Depending on your system requirements it may or may not work for you and can cause system instability; it unfortunately doesn’t work for me. You make the change by editing your boot.ini file. Google “XP 3GB switch” there are numerous entires explainig how.
ya…had googled 3gb switch and tried it and it screws with my video card as it’s onboard and shares ram with os.,. so no go solution for me…
guess its time to build a new desktop
I put in a support ticket so let’s see what the folks at Pixologic can do with it; because if they can put together amazing features like these, they can surely fix this in no time.
I’ll try to locate an XP SP3 system and check for possible conflicts.
I’ll let you know if I find anything related to this system.
Support: Thank you very much! the support ticket I submitted was #JVL-435626. I submitted it in the “Other” section of the support department options. Basically any subtractive function causes this crash on my machine including the SUB, AND and Create Shell functions. I am looking forward to hear what you discover.
Until then I can cut holes the old fashion way with Extract and the Subtool boolean operations. 
Dave
LightCap’s “Create Environment” got this problem,too…-_-|||
Hey,…Just wanted to say that I am having the same exact issue…when I do a negative insert of any kind it crashes on remesh. I have a 4 gig, Win XP, 32-bit machine…and the resolution does not matter, it says not enough memory is available to complete the action, but with low poly dynamesh thats a little strange…anyways, I put in a support ticket as well, hopefully there is a solution soon…
-Josh
Im having the same issue and came here to see if there was any info on it.
AMD Athlon 7750 Dual Core 1.38GHz
Win XP 32-bit sp3, 3gb ram
Dual monitors (but my vid card has its own ram so not sure if that would have any effect)
Edit: just saw the post about requiring an unaltered screen shot of the error message so here goes:
Also, the string of error messages is:
.\List.cpp Line: 517
.\List.cpp Line: 734
.\List.cpp Line: 155
.\List.cpp Line: 165
Abnormal Termination.
I saw the part about switching the 3gig thing, but others have stated that it causes system instability, so I’m not gonna risk it. My system has had enough issues in the past as it is. Things have been running smooth for a while so I’ll just wait to see if Pixo can address it with anything more solid first. If not, I’ll just deal with not being able to use this feature until I can upgrade my system (hopefully in a month or so).
inel core2 duo. nvidia 9800 gtx single monitor.
Activate the Switch to 3GB and it will stop from crashing, even with 1024+ dynamesh. Also tested on a dual xeon, nvidia gtx 265. There are couple lines of error that pops up when it crash. Please report all the error messages, not just the first.
